Quotes About Education

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.